NON-VENOMOUS Other common names Brown Water Snake Basic description Most adult Brown Watersnakes are about 30-60 inches (76-152 cm) in total length. These stout-bodied snakes are light tan with squarish darker brown blotches down the middle of the back. Dark squarish markings also extend upwards
Cottonmouths have vertically elliptical (cat-like) pupils, whereas watersnakes have
School may be out for the summer, but our education team is hard at work! With uncertainty about what the fall semester will look like, educators at the Florida Museum and the Randell Research Center (RRC) wanted to make sure that students wouldn’t miss out on important experiences like field trips.
Educational field trips have been shown to have immense value, especially for students
Archaeologists at the Florida Museum of Natural History want to remind students that the past is just beneath their feet. That’s the idea behind a new field course offered by the department of anthropology that lets students sidestep centuries of local history and travel back to a time when Florida
by Jerald Pinson • October 7, 2024 Students at the University of Florida have
Archaeopedology at the Lake Monroe Outlet Midden (8VO53) By Sylvia J. Scudder The Site Setting Volusia County, FL is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and the west by the St. Johns River. The landscape is formed from a series of beach ridges and terraces that accumulated tens of thousa
lakes and marshes provide a rich variety of habitats and animal resources that have
Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into the understory. These masters of disguise are euptychiines, one of the most diverse and least understood groups of butterflies in the American Tropics. The
the rainforests of Peru and Brazil, but even the most seasoned butterfly experts have
A Fish Tale: Sawfish Fact and Fiction Through History By Carmen Elenberger For years sawfish carried a reputation as a formidable denizen of the deep. Their reputation was spread by writers such as Jules Verne, whose famous Captain Nemo instructed his sailors in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The
They have plenty of natural enemies- cachalots, swordfish, and sawfish- without your
As part of its work to save wildlife, the Disney Conservation Fund awarded funding to two University of Florida research centers to continue conservation efforts for imperiled butterflies and sea turtles. The programs will receive $350,000 each, bringing the total of Disney’s support for UF conserva
Although its populations have grown, this species is a rare find and is still absent
Misty mountains, glistening forests and blue-green lakes make Cameroon, the wettest part of Africa, a tropical wonderland for amphibians. The country holds more than half the species living on the continent, including dozens of endemic frogs — an animal that has been under attack across the world
herpetologist David Blackburn and colleagues at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin have
Contact Florida Museum of Natural History Special Collections Building 3207 Hull Road University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 352-273-1829 slapcin@flmnh.ufl.edu Collection Invertebrate Zoology Education M.S., University of Virginia B.S., George Mason University Research Interests I
efforts to sample the terrestrial snails of the islands of New Guinea and Madagascar have
Pam and Doug Soltis, distinguished professors with the Florida Museum of Natural History, discuss the importance of Tragopogon, a flowering plant in the sunflower family, and its role in helping understand more about the polyploids. Polyploids are organisms with more than two sets of chromosomes an
In one very simple view we can have species one hybridized with species two.
